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Festive Ice Cream & Cookie Bowls

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Homemade ice creams and a sweet sugar cookie bowl are the perfect summer treat. Everyone will love this Festive Ice Cream & Cookie Bowls.

Homemade ice creams and a sweet sugar cookie bowl are the perfect summer treat.  Everyone will love this Festive Ice Cream & Cookie Bowls.

Festive Ice Cream & Cookie Bowls

As you may know, we are like 99% dye free at our house, so I needed a tasty treat that would be patriotic, but still have a little red, white, and blue flare. As I was trying to decide, my kids decided we needed some ice cream…homemade, with blueberries….aren’t the precious ones so demanding sometimes?!?!

So I made almond ice cream for the white, blueberry ice cream for the blue, and strawberry ice cream for the red. The colors are muted, but they look great and taste divine.

Homemade ice creams and a sweet sugar cookie bowl are the perfect summer treat.  Everyone will love this Festive Ice Cream & Cookie Bowls.

Sugar Cookie Bowls

But they had a great idea and then I had a great idea! Strawberry, Almond, and Blueberry ice creams all served up in tasty sugar cookie bowls. Then the hard part was trying to decide what type of cookie to make!

Gavin wanted sugar cookies, Kaylynn wanted chocolate chip cookies, hubbyman didn’t care…so much for his help. So, I decided on both. And I thought I would add some fun holiday sprinkles to the sugar cookies just to add a little more color. Most of the cookies I made were just regular cookies, but the sprinkles were so pretty….sometimes I just have to have the extra color! (My daughter was super happy with her dye free version.)

The trick is to use a cookie bowl pan. They can be a little tricky and it took me a few tries to get it right, but they do work. I make ice cream cookie bowls all the time now with this pan.

Homemade ice creams and a sweet sugar cookie bowl are the perfect summer treat.  Everyone will love this Festive Ice Cream & Cookie Bowls.

Looking for more delicious 4th of July recipes? I’ve got ya covered with these:

4th of July Recipes:

4th of July Party Menu
Patriotic Party Ideas
Red, White, & Blue Cider
Blueberry Cherry Pie
Red, White, and Blue Patriotic Brownies
Red, White, and Blue Layered Drinks

Festive Ice Cream & Cookie Bowls

Festive Ice Cream & Cookie Bowls

Yield: 6
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 13 minutes
Additional Time: 3 hours
Total Time: 3 hours 43 minutes
Homemade ice creams and a sweet sugar cookie bowl are the perfect summer treat.  Everyone will love this Festive Ice Cream & Cookie Bowls.

Ingredients

  • Ice Cream:
  • 2 cups whole milk
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup strawberry puree (or blueberry puree)
  • Sugar Cookies:
  • 1 stick (1/2 cup butter), softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp almond extract
  • 3/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/3 cup flour

Instructions

  1. Ice Cream:
  2. Combine all ice cream ingredients in an ice cream maker. Follow freezing instructions on your machine. Transfer finished ice cream into a freezer safe container and freezer for several hours to harden.
  3. *Almond Ice Cream: replace vanilla extract with almond flavoring. Add in 1/2 cup chopped almond pieces when ice cream almost done.
  4. Sugar Cookies:
  5. Preheat oven to 350F. Spray Ice Cream Cookie Bowl pan with nonstick cooking spray.
  6. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Add salt and flour. Mix well.
  7. Roll out dough on a floured surface to about 1/8 inch thick. Cut 4 1/2 inch circles in the dough. Drape a circle over each of the molds, pressing to conform to pan.
  8. Bake 11-13 minutes or until golden and firm. Cool for several minutes and gently remove cookie to finish cooling on a cooling rack.
  9. Makes 6 bowls.
  10. *Cookie recipe slightly adapted from Wilton's Sugar Cookie recipe.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 4304 Total Fat: 164g Saturated Fat: 100g Cholesterol: 647mg Sodium: 2181mg Carbohydrates: 635g Fiber: 8g Sugar: 503g Protein: 85g
© Wendy O'Neal
Cuisine: American / Category: desserts

Love these other Festive Ideas from a few foodie friends:

Created By Diane’s Cherry Pie Cookies

All Day I Dream About Food’s Patriotic Star Whoopie Pies

Patriotic Layer Cake

 

 

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Comments

  8. Sandra says

    June 21, 2012 at 7:10 am

    I would make Red Velvet ice cream (a favorite of mine to do) and sugar cookie bowls tinted blue for a whole 4th of July effect.
    Reply

  14. Caitlin says

    June 20, 2012 at 4:09 am

    These look like something my kids would absolutely love! How many Texas size bowls did you get out of this recipe, Coleen? Just three?
    Reply

  15. Sarah Cohen says

    June 20, 2012 at 12:59 am

    Cute recipe. My kids will surely love these festive ice cream and cookies bowl. They will surely love the designs.
    Reply

  19. Dita MacDonald says

    June 19, 2012 at 4:47 pm

    Those ice cream bowls would be a perfect dessert for our 4th of July party at my house. I love Wilton products.
    Reply

  20. Heather Spooner says

    June 19, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    I would make my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe with vanilla bean ice cream. Thanks for the giveaway! heatherspooner1981 at gmail dot com
    Reply

  22. Pam says

    June 19, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    Yummy! We would make chocolate peanut butter cookie bowls and fill them with homemade strawberry ice cream.
    Reply

  25. Tenielle S says

    June 19, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    I would make chocolate chip cookie bowl with some homemade vanilla ice cream! Thank you for the opportunity to win this great giveaway!
    Reply

  26. Lori Stilger says

    June 19, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    Oh, goodness! Let's see. I'd probably make blueberry ice cream - my dad would love me for that. :D And sugar cookie bowls, because he doesn't like chocolate - and we can add chocolate in another way, if need be. :D Thanks so much for the generous giveaway!
    Reply

  27. Jessica (Jacb) Bleasdale says

    June 19, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    I would make cookies and cream ice cream with chocolate chip cookie bowl(Rafflecopter Name: Jacb Cody)
    Reply

  33. Rachel Runyan says

    June 19, 2012 at 9:35 am

    I would make a chocolate cookie bowl with mint chocolate chip ice cream. That would be a household favorite. During strawberry season though, I would have to make a vanilla cookie bowl with strawberry ice cream and topped with whipped cream and fresh strawberries. YUM-O
    Reply

  48. Francy Skitt says

    June 18, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    Oh my gosh. This is my favorite. I could eat as many as I could on these festive ice cream & cookie bowls.
    Reply

  51. Claire says

    June 18, 2012 at 11:31 am

    Wow! It was a mouthwatering post. Those look so delicious and perfect for celebrating you can never go wrong with cookies & ice cream, yummy.
    Reply

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